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To be shocked watching back kids movies from my childhood with DD

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Picklepower · 17/02/2025 17:10

DD is 6 and we watch quite a few films together, mixture of old and new. Last Halloween I was so excited to watch a film from my childhood, decided against hocus pocus but went with Casper. Well, turns out not once but TWICE Eric idle's character shouts BITCH at Carrigan. (She's is tbf but a bit much for a Pg film).

Just sat down to watch Charlie and the chocolate factory (from 2005!) and mike teevee says 'even a retard could figure it out'. What the hell!

Any other corkers you've come across watching back your childhood films?

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InvisibilityCloakActivated · 17/02/2025 18:07

Not a kiddie film, but Ace Ventura hasn't aged well. I loved it as a teen, but watched it a while ago and thought the end was quite shocking - Ace (& the entire police force) vomiting and crying at the thought of kissing a man!

Horriblevirusagain · 17/02/2025 18:06

I grew up watching horror movies and still love them. Am now 54 and never traumatized. My kids grew up with all Disney movies and Simpsons , sadly for me don't like horrors. I don't remember any movie in childhood where I was shocked with language. Us 54 year olds are hardcore because we were raised in the 70s 👍

Jennyathemall · 17/02/2025 18:06

OMG not B word!!!

Lovelysausagedogscrumpy · 17/02/2025 18:06

Picklepower · 17/02/2025 17:27

Grease prompted me to ask my mum what a virgin was when I was about 5

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Why were you watching Grease at age 5 ?

speedtalker · 17/02/2025 18:05

I think it was Back to the Future that I was shocked to realise there were so many ‘shit!’ yells in it.

Such a good film though.

Scully01 · 17/02/2025 18:04

I put on Ace Ventura for my kids, and swiftly turned it off, forgot about the sex scenes and then all the trans stuff. Don't know what I was thinking 🤦🏾‍♀️🤦🏾‍♀️

ReadingParty · 17/02/2025 18:04

Duckswaddle · 17/02/2025 17:47

🤣🤣🤣 I remember screeching “she’s a real pussy wagon” around the house when I was around 10 after watching Grease. I loved that film, didn’t even occur to me that it was rude.

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When we did a production of Grease at my convent school, that lyric was discreetly rewritten as 'She's a really pretty wagon!' Grin

'Look at me, I'm Sandra Dee' was omitted entirely, and I don't think our music teacher figured out what the 'putting up a fight' and 'she was good, you know what I mean' bits of 'Summer Nights' were actually about.

I will say my Rizzo was spectacular, despite a few omissions -- I think I had to sing 'Say I like them when we dance' instead of 'Press against them when we dance'.

And the girl playing Kenickie had a brief fling with the girl playing Frenchie.

InvisibilityCloakActivated · 17/02/2025 18:03

TheChosenTwo · 17/02/2025 17:28

My youngest is now a teenager (13) and it’s a minefield sitting down to watch some of the old classics with him.
I went for a safe option the other night, trains planes and automobiles - all fine pretty much until Steve Martin goes off on a rampage and uses the word fucking about 20 times in a minute 😂
to be fair I don’t mind the odd bit of swearing in stuff and it was a 15 so my own fault!
But I do agree, and if anyone has any recommendations for any old classics to watch with nothing too hardcore I’m all ears.

The Princess Bride? As long as you don't mind R.O.U.S.... Or a little bit of sword fighting... or the weird albino that sucks the life out of the man in black...

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Picklepower · 17/02/2025 18:03

Newrumpus · 17/02/2025 18:02

@Picklepower mike teevee says 'even a retard could figure it out'. What the hell!

Mike Teevee is a horrible character. He’s not supposed to be one of the good guys.

Well obviously. The problem is the word retard not that his character isn't nice. The children in Charlie and the chocolate factory aren't nice, that's why the all end up the way they do

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AnAlpacaForChristmasPleaseSanta · 17/02/2025 18:03

Duckswaddle · 17/02/2025 17:47

🤣🤣🤣 I remember screeching “she’s a real pussy wagon” around the house when I was around 10 after watching Grease. I loved that film, didn’t even occur to me that it was rude.

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🤣🤣 my friend and I had a song sheet with the lyrics on from somewhere and asked her mum what the "chicks will cream" line meant. She told us that must have been a misprint as it was actually "dream" as in the girls would all dream about being lucky enough to have a drive in Danny's car!

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Picklepower · 17/02/2025 18:02

BodyKeepingScore · 17/02/2025 18:00

I remember LOVING Drop Dead Fred as a child. My sisters and I used to act it out constantly and it was almost always chosen when we were allowed to choose a movie to rent.

I watched it again recently with my kids with my mouth on the floor. Nothing that made me regret watching it with them but my god it was vulgar 🤣

I loved drop dead Fred too!

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Janiie · 17/02/2025 18:02

Justploddingonandon · 17/02/2025 17:30

I never understood why people thing Greese is a family show. Quite apart from the whole teenage pregnancy storyline, I hate the message it gives when Sandy basically totally changes herself to get the boy.

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But Danny changed too! Ditched the leather jacket and got a cardy.
I just thought the casting was all wrong they looked like adults in their 30s not college kids.

Newrumpus · 17/02/2025 18:02

@Picklepower mike teevee says 'even a retard could figure it out'. What the hell!

Mike Teevee is a horrible character. He’s not supposed to be one of the good guys.

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Picklepower · 17/02/2025 18:01

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Wow, I forgot it's MN so I have put light-hearted in the title to keep the no-sense-of-humour Mnetters out

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WellsAndThistles · 17/02/2025 18:01

Robin Hood Prince of thieves was my bday gift around age 8, interesting viewing with a torture chamber in the middle of it.

Never ending story as the film of choice at school before Xmas holidays, 7 year olds, some kids were screaming 😆.

Good times 🫣

BodyKeepingScore · 17/02/2025 18:00

I remember LOVING Drop Dead Fred as a child. My sisters and I used to act it out constantly and it was almost always chosen when we were allowed to choose a movie to rent.

I watched it again recently with my kids with my mouth on the floor. Nothing that made me regret watching it with them but my god it was vulgar 🤣

Literallynoonecares · 17/02/2025 18:00

ItGhoul · 17/02/2025 17:48

PG films aren’t meant to be universally suitable for all ages. If you want zero chance of even mildly offensive content you need to look for a U rating, not a PG. Casper is probably a PG because it has the word ‘bitch’ in it, not despite it.

However, Robin Hood: Prince Of Thieves used to be a PG and includes Christian Slater’s character saying ‘Well fuck me, he cleared it’ at one point as well, and a rape attempt by Alan Rickman’s Sheriff of Nottingham on Maid Marian. It was a PG for almost 20 years and was only upped to a 12 as recently as 2019!

Oh wow yes I had forgotten about this film. The way the sheriff of Nottingham is trying to force himself on Maid Marian and he forces her legs open at one point 😬I remember watching it at the time and wondering why people were finding that scene a bit amusing when he is literally trying to rape her.

Ilovegermany · 17/02/2025 17:59

Watching films again from the 80s is so different now. When they were on BBC or ITV some scenes were deleted or the words dubbed over so there was no swearing in the films when we were younger.
I can remember watching Beverly Hills Cop in later years and being shocked with all the swearing fairly near the beginning when the boss has a go at Axel. That wasn’t what was on the TV when I was younger.
but I’m of the era when Relax was banned and fuck was said on Channel 4 for the first time on British TV.
I still feel uncomfortable with people using the word fuck - especially non-English mother tounge people that don’t really know it is pretty bad in English.

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ChompandaGrazia · 17/02/2025 17:58

I put ET on for my class to watch years ago. It’s a U so that’s fine, right?
One kid calls another ‘penis breath’…..

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Picklepower · 17/02/2025 17:55

Just to clarify DD is not phased by any of this in the slightest and I don't react. She has never repeated bitch or retard. This is more for fun than a moan, a bit of inappropriate nostalgia

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AndThereSheGoes · 17/02/2025 17:55

Justploddingonandon · 17/02/2025 17:30

I never understood why people thing Greese is a family show. Quite apart from the whole teenage pregnancy storyline, I hate the message it gives when Sandy basically totally changes herself to get the boy.

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But so does Danny
I think it's standard teenage behaviour...part of finding out who you are
Although granted in Grease they appear to be early 30'd

ItGhoul · 17/02/2025 17:55

Porcelainpig · 17/02/2025 17:53

Labyrinth was a very weird movie when you think about the storyline and her getting drugged. And the tights warranted an 18 cert pretty much 😂

I think a lot of young kids had their first confusing sexual awakenings upon seeing Bowie’s tights in that film 🤣

catsnore · 17/02/2025 17:54

There are some pretty odd sexual scenes in the Ghostbusters films iirc. I just sat there hoping it would go over DD1s head.

Porcelainpig · 17/02/2025 17:53

Labyrinth was a very weird movie when you think about the storyline and her getting drugged. And the tights warranted an 18 cert pretty much 😂

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